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The Widowed Mom Podcast Krista St-Germain
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The Widowed Mom Podcast offers practical and empowering strategies for widowed moms who believe in the possibility of loving life again but sometimes worry their best days are behind them. If you want more than traditional therapy and grief groups can offer, if you’re stuck in an emotional pattern and feel like you can’t get free, if you want help navigating the unique challenges of being a widowed mom with support that is uplifting and honest, this is the podcast for you. In each episode, Certified Life Coach, widow and mom, Krista St-Germain, will teach you small, manageable steps and techniques to help uncover what’s holding you back and show you how to create a future you can actually look forward to. You may not believe it yet but you CAN move through your grief and live a life you love. If you want to learn more, head over to coachingwithkrista.com.
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Navigating Deathiversaries: A Widows Unfiltered Interview with Wendy Alcanter
My client, Wendy Alcanter, is a mother of three who lost her husband to suicide three years ago. She joined Mom Goes On as a busy mom and ER doctor, discovered the tools that helped her create a life she truly loves, and she’s here to tell us about her grief journey.
Wendy shares her experience of early grief, how the tools she learned in Mom Goes On have supported her, and what her life is like now.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/256
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Acceptance Is Not a Place
Most people are walking around wondering if they’ve reached acceptance in grief, as though it’s a place. This feeds right into the narrative that grief ends. But we know that it doesn’t.
Learn why acceptance is not a place but rather a choice we make over and over, and how you can begin thinking about acceptance as a constant opportunity.
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Your Pain Is Not Your Connection
Do you worry that if you no longer felt pain about your person’s loss you’d lose your connection to them?
Join me this week to hear why your pain has nothing to do with your connection to your person, the difference between thoughts that create pain and thoughts that create connection, and what happens when you confuse pain with connection.
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Prioritizing Pleasure as a Widow
What is your relationship with pleasure? My guess is that you don’t truly believe your pleasure is a priority, but grief is a phenomenal opportunity for you to reassess where and how you can have a better quality of life.
Hear how most of us don’t prioritize pleasure, why pleasure is especially important in grief, and what you can do to create more pleasure and joy in your life.
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252. When Do Widows Need a Life Coach?
When do widows need a life coach? I’ll be honest, I struggle to answer this question, not only because I don’t know what you need, but also because I’m not in the business of telling people they need a coach.
Hear why asking this question is entirely unhelpful, and ask yourself questions instead about what you want next in life.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/252
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When It’s Okay to Give Up
There’s nothing like spousal or partner loss to make us reassess our priorities and get back in touch with what we truly want. But what do you do when you decide you no longer want to pursue something, and you’ve got that voice in your head saying, “Don’t be a quitter, you should or have to do this?”
Hear why you might be struggling to give up on something you no longer want, and discover four questions that will give you a renewed sense of clarity around your decision.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/251
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Incredible Coach for Widows
Once again, Krista St-Germain hits it “out of the park” with her most recent podcast entitled “Uncommon Widowhood”. Her experience as a young widow and her work over the past 8 years with hundreds of widowed moms has resulted in a deep understanding of how difficult it is to lose your person. Dealing with grief and deciding how you want to spend the rest of your life is an important task for everyone in this position. I have been in the Mom Goes On coaching program for a year and a half and I cannot say enough about how Krista and her team have helped me to grow as a person and deal with all of the challenges in my life. Her coaching program helps widows like me to focus on post-traumatic growth and consider important questions about how to live our lives more thoughtfully. If you are a widow—no matter how long ago your husband died—consider joining Mom Goes On or at least continuing to listen to Krista’s powerful and insightful podcasts. I promise you that this will help you in your journey. Best of luck to you! As Krista always says, “You’ve go this!”
You are helping more than can be put into words.
Thank you, Krista for sharing your experiences and expertise. While I am not a widow, I feel like one. My husband and I divorced in September after 24 years of marriage and 36 years together. I feel like a widow as I lost my life partner and father of my children. We have no communication due to substance use and abuse. Everything you share resonates with me and is keeping me going, especially on those days when the grief bursts appear. You are a very special person and are helping so many women that are in a club we did not want to be a part of.